My bow is in my hand. Beads of sweat roll down my back. My enemies are making their way up to the guild house and I have nothing more but a fucking bow in my hand. I see Tiger standing at the bottom of the hill. The blonde boy has a smirk on his face. He has his glowing sword in his hands. He stands there at the bottom of the hill and he looks up at us. His eyes glare as he has his army behind his back. All of them have a sick blood lust in their eyes.
We won't survive this.
"You guys should leave. Go back to the house and get some teleport stones. Teleport to a city maybe," I tell my guild members.
"This is our home," Demona states.
"This is a game," I tell her.
"It's the only home that we have."
Madden nods at that moment, "You're crazy if you think we are going to just leave you like that. You're crazy if you think we are just going to abandon you."
I look over at Madden. Why was he being so nice? Why was he staying at my side especially after the argument we just had?
Hunter had abandoned me. I wouldn't feel any type of way if he rest of them left as well. I look at their faces. Noah is terrified, Demona looks anxious, Sarafine has sunk so deep into herself that she is barely even here with us and Madden is putting on the bravest face that he can. It's so strange feeling like these people are willing to die with me.
"I can't ask you to stay here," I state.
"If we go down...we go down together," Sarafine says.
I don't expect her to say something so brave. She is the last person I expect it to come from. The rest of us can't help but to smile when we hear Sarafine say it. Demona breaks out into a clear laughter shocked and confused that Sarafine is saying that.
"Hell yeah..." Demona says, "I'm with Sarafine."
I'm surprised when Demona puts her arm on Sarafine's shoulder. For the first time Demona seems to respect her. For the first time all of us look at Sarafine as more than some sort of game glitch. Sarafine was our friend. The glimmer of trust and companionship in her eyes is real shit. You couldn't program that.
I draw my string back at that moment and point it towards the army making its way up the side of the mountain. My guild is behind my back and we are outnumbered more than anything I've ever seen in my life. None of that matters though.
Right now I felt powerful. I had my friends.
Demona with her axe.
Madden with his sword and shield.
Sarafine with her staff.
Noah with his twin daggers.
And I have my celestial bow.
"We may not survive today," I tell them, "But for a year we weren't supposed to survive. They trapped us in a game. Their social experiment was to test us. Well today we are going to be graded. Today we are going to make these motherfuckers pay in blood for what they did to us. Today we show them that we are gamers, but they are going to be the ones getting played!"
The words fly out of my mouth and they are more for me than anything, but I feel my friends gather behind my back. If Hunter didn't want to be a part of this, then that was his loss. Right now I had my friends here and they responded to my rally with war cries. They stand close to me and I know there is no place else in this game or in this world they'd rather be then here by my side right now. That is the power of true friendship.
I release my arrow.
The bow whizzes through the sky and the first attack lands.
I shoot at Tiger but it barely misses him but gets a warrior who is riding up next to him. This seems to piss Tiger off. His guild is running up now faster and faster.
